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The Jungle

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair · 1791 · 350 pages

Slaughtering and slaughter-housesSociologyLithuanian AmericansFictionHistorical FictionEmigration and immigration

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A story of the immigrant workers on the great Chicago meat companies' assembly lines, showing the dangerous working and living conditions, and the lack of support for the workers and their families by the ethnic, religious, and union institutions.

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